Pyrelight wrote:Acoustic treatment generally is a waste of money. Bass traps in corners of anything at all. The room goes way further than any treatment in it.

I beg to differ. I set up 6 basic acoustic panels, all six of them made out of Owen Corning 703. Two at the back layered, two on either side, and two behind me. There was definitely a noticeable difference in room reverb and echoes. I don't have any bass traps though, and I'll be getting some for my next studio, which will be exciting. As an example of how beneficial acoustic treatment is, watch this. It's a bit of an extreme example, but I'm sure you get the idea.

Kyoga wrote:Navron's method is closest to what I do. Honestly just generating your sounds the way you want them the first time makes it a lot easier to toy with as you go along.I personally wouldn't suggest trying to use reverb on just the lower frequencies as you're more than likely to end up just making the whole mix muddy.

Subbass tends to travel far through walls, but it does like to trap itself in corners. Some bass traps for the corners of your room will clear up the majority of your sub freqs.

Soundproofing the floor and walls themselves is generally for the low-mid range freqs (300-3000Hz). High freqs don't reverberate as much as they lose their energy quickly, and subbass doesn't give a f*** and will just go through your soundproofed walls anyway.